Sunday, June 2, 2013

Acer announces the Liquid S1: a 5.7-inch smartphone with a near-stock Android experience (hands-on)

Acer announces the Liquid S1: a 5.7-inch smartphone with a near-stock Android experience (hands-on)

Sure, an earthquake might have distracted us mid-way through our time with the smartphone, but the Liquid S1 has plenty of notable points that are worth elaborating on. As we mentioned earlier, the software experience is very similar to the Nexus 4. In fact, the offscreen soft buttons (one of the visible differences from Google's stock offering) are even assigned the same way: back, home and multitask. However, hold down on that multitask button and a pop-up window offers several shortcuts to app windows - floating widgets that can offer functionality while running on top of any app.

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